Posted on 04/07/2020 11:48:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a Monday press briefing of the White House Coronavirus task force, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the United States might never get entirely back to where it was before the novel coronavirus outbreak, especially without a vaccine and effective treatments.
As of Monday, there are currently over 364,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in the United States, with over 9,600 deaths, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.
Both economic activity and life as normal have come to a grinding halt across the country. Forty-four states have issued some form of a stay-at-home order temporarily closing down non-essential businesses and telling citizens to practice social distancing and stay at home as much as possible to mitigate the spread.
And while some states have shown encouraging signs that widespread social distancing is working to slow the progression of the disease, US officials warn that social distancing and other mitigation measures remain crucial to help flatten the curve of the rate of cases.
Fauci, the Director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the nation's top infectious disease expert, At the briefing, ABC News Correspondent Jon Karl said, "you said you wanted to get back to normal as soon as possible," asking, "Will we truly get back to normal in this country before there's an actual vaccine that's available to everybody, and how do you start lifting the restrictions without a vaccine?"
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"If 'back to normal' means acting like there never was a coronavirus problem, I don't think that's going to happen until we do have a situation where you can completely protect the population," Dr. Fauci said. "But when we say getting back to normal, we mean something very different from what we're going through right now. Because right now, we're in a very intense mitigation."
"When we get back to normal, we will go back to the point where we can function as a society. But you're absolutely right. If you want to get back to pre-coronavirus, that might not ever happen in the sense that the threat is there," Fauci continued. "But I believe that with the therapies that will be coming online, and the fact that I feel confident that over a period of time we will get a good vaccine, that we will never have to get back to where we are right now."
This guy needs to be fired, and then sent to GITMO.
Who died and made “Dr.” Fauci king?
Did Woody Allen write this response?
Complete and utter bull excrement.
The totalitarian fascists see this as their opportunity.
We must disabuse them of that notion.
Rush Limbaugh, ten minutes ago:
“We still don’t have an AIDS vaccine”.
Dr. Fauci??
Oh My G*d, will this buffoon please shut his pie hole.
A “good” 30-40% effective vaccine is not going to be all that great.
Junk Silver says that without firing Dr. Fauci and all the other useless preening Deep-State bureaucrats who thrive on panic, and perhaps showing some willingness to accept a modicum of risk, America will never get back to normal.
Fauci is a FRAUD!! He’s a HILLIARY LOVER DEEP STATE COUP PLOTTER! BUREAUCRAT!!
doc faux is getting paid handsomely to spread seriously negative propaganda.
Where's that HIV vaccine you were working on 30 years ago?
As long as we have testing and treatment we can go back to normal.
OMG I am done with Dr. False!
You mean Anthony Fauci’s connections to Big Pharma and the Gates Foundation?
Create a need for a vaccine and then make billions on it?
AIDS isn’t spread by airborne or simple contact vector, though.
Dr. Doom strikes again
Someone tell Fauci to go suck a lemon..ya know why he wants a vaccine, because big pharma will make MILLIONS off of it..just wait and see til they demand that every single American get a vaccine, and it wont be a “We recommend it” it will be forced into your arm..ya know its coming..that is why Fauci is SO against any kind of drug remedy, you cant make money off of a 5 cent pill but a vaccine, you can make zillions
January 24
“It isn’t something the American public needs to worry about or be frightened about, because we have ways of preparing and screening of people coming in from China,” National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci said. “It’s a very, very low risk to the United States”
Makes one wonder if Dr. Fauci ever heard the phrase “HERD IMMUNITY”
My 5 year old nephew got the flu vaccine last year, in December he still got the flu bad(Heck who knows maybe it was corona) he had 105 degree fever with no other symptoms..took a week for the fever to finally go down..a vaccine only works maybe 30 percent of the time, doesnt prevent you from getting the virus just in a smaller strain
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